Wuthering Heights

Author: Emily Bronte

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  • : $6.95 AUD
  • : 9781853260018
  • : Wordsworth Editions, Limited
  • : Wordsworth Editions, Limited
  • : April 1992
  • : 198mm X 126mm X 15mm
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  • : Emily Bronte
  • : Wordsworth Classics
  • : Paperback
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  • : English
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  • : 272
  • : General & literary fiction; Classic fiction
  • : notes, bibliography
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Barcode 9781853260018
9781853260018

Description

Wuthering Heights is a wild, passionate story of the intense and almost demonic love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, a foundling adopted by Catherine's father. After Mr Earnshaw's death, Heathcliff is bullied and humiliated by Catherine's brother Hindley and wrongly believing that his love for Catherine is not reciprocated, leaves Wuthering Heights, only to return years later as a wealthy and polished man. He proceeds to exact a terrible revenge for his former miseries. The action of the story is chaotic and unremittingly violent, but the accomplished handling of a complex structure, the evocative descriptions of the lonely moorland setting and the poetic grandeur of vision combine to make this unique novel a masterpiece of English literature.

Awards

Runner-up for The BBC Big Read Top 100 2003 and The BBC Big Read Top 21 2003. Shortlisted for BBC Big Read Top 100 2003.

Author description

Introduction and Notes by John S. Whitley, University of Sussex.